Open AccessGrowth hormone treatment in Turner's syndrome: A real world experience
Author(s) -
Vijay Sheker Reddy Danda,
P Sreedevi,
G Arun,
P Srinivas Rao
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.456
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2230-9500
pISSN - 2230-8210
DOI - 10.4103/ijem.ijem_36_17
Subject(s) - medicine , short stature , turner syndrome , pediatrics , retrospective cohort study , population , observational study , growth hormone , bone age , hormone , environmental health
Short stature is a universal clinical feature of Turner's syndrome (TS). Growth failure begins in fetal life, and adults with TS are on an average 20 cm shorter than the normal female population. Since there is a paucity of data from India regarding the effect of growth hormone (GH) on TS patients, we retrospectively analyzed the data of TS patients who are on GH treatment.